Name: ______________________________________ Date: _______________________ Class: _______________

Post-Lesson Worksheet
The tiger below is colored differently than the one seen at the beginning of class. The white tiger’s coat
color was due to a mutation.

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1. Explain what a mutation is.

A mutation is when something goes wrong in the DNA

2. Explain how this mutation caused this tiger to have a white coat instead of an orange coat.
When it changed it made the orange fur go white.

3. Which of these would most likely cause this mutation?

A. the placement of ribosomes on the endoplasmic reticulum
B. the insertion of a nucleotide into DNA
C. the movement of transfer RNA out of the nucleus
D. the release of messenger RNA from DNA

4. The DNA sequence for the orange tiger and the mutated DNA sequence of the white tiger are shown
below. What would the mRNA codons be for the mutated tiger?

Mutations Lesson—Post-Lesson Worksheet